FOR THE LOCKER & THE STEERER

David Gascoyne.(First London reading since 1990. The great British surrealist of
the 1930s, who enjoyed a tremendous revival of attention during the 1960s and has
now become Britain's most loved elder statesperson of poetry.)

Bob Cobbing. (The celebrated sound/concrete poet/bookmaker,
who has influenced generations of other poets across the world.)

Nicholas Johnson (performing The Lard Book, a gargantuan Visual Book in a silver case,
a found text utilising a multitude of voices: neologism, German, concrete. "The performance
encompasses determinacy of chance & will solder into a short collaborative debut of
'Hassell' (writers forum, 1999) with Bob Cobbing.")

15th March 7.30 pm

Helen Macdonald (whose debut collection Safety Catch
drew widespread acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. She works with falcons and hawks
-- poems full of bird flight but mysteriously and musically so.)

Iain Sinclair (poet, 'intellectual best-seller' prose writer and film maker of
renown and cult followings. His work in progress is a sequel to the 12 walks that
became Lights Out for the Territory, and his poetry also acts as a
reading of the city of London, "locations of the immediate and the unexpected".)